Decades of church-military ‘symbiosis’ behind pro-Ukraine war stance of Russian Orthodox

By Mark A. Kellner

A decades-long “symbiosis” between church and military has planted the Russian Orthodox Church’s leadership on the side of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, a leading Georgetown University scholar said Friday.

At the same time, the rightward stance of Patriarch Kirill — who described the invasion of Ukraine as …

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